Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Abstract Aim While drinking in the event is an important factor in injury occurrence, pattern of usual drinking may also be important in risk of injury.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Alcohol consumption causes approximately four percent of all deaths worldwide and is responsible for roughly five percent of global diseases. A study of alcohol consumption in Tuscany, Italy has found that alcoholics have significantly higher rates of both general and cancer mortality when compared to the general population…
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Prior to the 1984 passage of a uniform drinking-age limit of 21 years in the U.S., many states permitted the legal purchase of alcohol at age 18.
Abstract Aims:To examine the associations between working hours and alcohol-related problems during early adulthood. Design and setting: Longitudinal study of a birth cohort born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1977 and studied to age 30. Participants: 1019 participants with data available for working hours and alcohol-related problems at either age 25 or 30
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Increasing the costs to consumers of beer, wine, and hard liquor significantly reduces the rates of a wide range of alcohol-related deaths, diseases, injuries, and other problems, according to a new study published in the online edition of the American Journal of Public Health and scheduled for inclusion in the November print edition…
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Prior research has shown that alcohol abuse and dependence are typically associated with higher rates of obesity, as evidenced by a high body mass index (BMI)…
Abstract: Background: Global prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is estimated to be around 3% with approximately 170 million people affected. In Australia, and in many other resource rich countries, injecting drug use is the single most important risk factor for acquiring HCV, with around a third of diagnoses occurring in women. This study aims to assess gender differences in hepatitis C antibody prevalence and associated risk behaviours amongst a large sample of PWID in Australia.Methods: During a one to two week period in October, PWID attending selected NSP sites are invited to participate in the Australian NSP Survey.
Filed in Evidence Base, Harm Reduction
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Also tagged australia, australian, capillary-blood, demographic, harm-reduction, increased-risk, reported-higher, resource, results-suggest, risk-behaviours, study, survey-between, women
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Conclusion: Findings indicate that women are at greater risk than men of HCV infection during the early years of injection through higher rates of receptive sharing of needles and syringes and/or ancillary equipment. Our results suggest that women who are new to injecting, and Indigenous women in particular, should be identified as priority populations when developing and implementing harm reduction strategies that target people who inject illicit drugs. (Source: International Journal of Drug Policy)
Combining the antidepressant sertraline with the alcohol dependence treatment naltrexone produced a 54 percent abstinence rate in patients with both major depression and alcohol dependence, whereas the rates were only 21 to 28 percent for patients taking a placebo, sertraline only, or naltrexone only…
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Also tagged alcohol, alcohol-dependence, antidepressant, both-major, dependence-treatment, naltrexone-produced, patients-taking, percent-abstinence, rates-were, the-alcohol, the-antidepressant
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Authors: Mariani JJ, Horey J, Bisaga A, Aharonovich E, Raby W, Cheng WY, Nunes E, Levin FR Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is highly associated with substance use disorders (SUD).
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, cocaine
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Also tagged adult, adult-features, aharonovich, antisocial, aspd, both-childhood, cocaine, context, study, substance-use, the-context, these-various, use-disorders
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